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"Femme Fatales" was honored as an Official Selection of the 2011 and 2012 Sitges International Film Festival which showcased several episodes including "Behind Locked Doors," "Haunted," "Something Like Murder," "Help Me Rhonda," "Libra," "Family Business" and "Extracurricular Activities."See more »

As someone who is tired of reality crap and the same stale, safe plot
formulas playing out on network and cable (please kill me before I
watch yet another cop/CSI show), "FF" takes a collection of familiar
elements and tosses them in a pop culture mix master set to high. Yeah,
it's corny at times, but it's also alternately funny, suspenseful,
sexy, smart and scary  all depending on the episode.

There are a lot of "grindhouse" elements here but without the gore or
general "torture porn" mood of that genre. And while "Skinamax" fans
are offered plenty of eye candy, the female characters are never
debased or pointlessly exploited, and generally have the upper hand in
the end. Yes, the femme fatales are the stars of "FF."

The most recent episode, "Something Like Murder" offers the most
traditional "film noir" style of the show so far. And while it depends
heavily on familiar characters  the plot was pretty clever, and the
cast game. Dialoge-wise, it reminded of what Pauline Kael said about
the modern noir classic "Body Heat": "Sounds like the characters have
been boning up on Chandler novels." But is that so wrong? Just a wink
and a nod to the source material inspirations.

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